Electric Powered Military Vehicles?

[Gilevi]

tech is not there yet. only way to do it, would be smaller quick change batteries. that way you just hot swap batteries when u need to "refuel" think like a cordless drill. the battery would have to be able to run a vehicle fully loaded for 300 miles. and couldn't weight more then what 1 person could change out (say 50-60 lbs). i can see something like this being useful and better then fuel. logistically it would be easier to transport the batteries then fuel since it would be lighter and take up less capacity. and if there was a way a Field Support Battalion could recharge them off the local grid, it would lighten the logistical burden even more. unfortunately the tech is not there to accomplish this, and i dont see it happening for a long time.

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only problems would be the pollution caused by the diesel engine or gas turbine engine used to power the charging station

we can go green with that too, go with a small nuke generator. there are some very promising ones in the work. you can have a generator the size of a small conex that will power a city block. and the US army are looking at them to power FOBs. use some pebble bed, helium reactors and the radiation threat if hit is not to bad.

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[Gil Boyd]

Pollution can't be OUR fault totally, which is where all this alternative energy stuff has been driven from.
I can remember London in the 60's where you couldn't see your hand in front of your face caused by chimney smog for most of the winter.........a bit like China and India are today.

Until EVERY country abides by some form of output restriction on their fossil useage, we will be going round in circles for at least another 30-50 years, until electric vehicles become affordable to everybody, IF thats what the climate change people want!!

[USGI]

The VW Group has been making good progress on recycling EV batteries. - Bob

https://newsroom.vw.com/vehicles/vol...7-73E3CCE2659D

[Flying10uk]

With electric vehicles you do get the power instantly combined with fantastic acceleration, assuming that there is any life left in the batteries, compared to the internal combustion engine. Just watch an electric train accelerate out of a station compared to a diesel powered one.

It amazes me how much the flatulence of cattle is said to damage the atmosphere. They've been on planet earth for thousands of years, happily munching grass, without causing a problem but now,all of a sudden, their digestion does appear a problem to some.

[Gil Boyd]

IMHO its just a lot of wind, and some aspects of it are definately over egged, everybody stop breathing